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Wallace West (1900–1980) was a prolific science fiction author who published more than 50 short stories and novels. He was born in Walnut Hills, Kentucky and pursued a career in public relations, while writing science fiction and fantasy. His first published story, “Loup-Garou,” appeared in Weird Tales in October 1927, but he quickly found a home in the burgeoning science fiction pulps, where must of his later work appeared.
Weird TalesWest’s writing was well crafted and mixed action-adventure with social commentary. (He was an early advocate of pollution control and used his fiction to bring the cause to pubic attention with such stories as “Dust” (1967) are ecologically themed.
He wrote less original work after 1960, and his books are mostly fixups and expansions of earlier story s
